1997 – Page 19

CDE board says that big users are responsible for the utility’s problems. The president of the Board of Administration of the Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad, Celso Marranzini, said that the major culprits of the fraud against the state utility are large private businesses, not the thousands of low income Dominicans. He said that the enemies …

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Dr. Pedro Castellanos, representative of the Panamerican Health Organization in the Dominican Republic, said that the child mortality rate in the Dominican Republic is relatively high, 43-47 children per 1,000 births. Some 200 mothers die per 1,000 births, according to a report in Hoy.

Last week, political analysts pointed out several interesting observations to keep in mind when following the news on the municipal and congressional elections, scheduled for May 1998. In the 1996 presidential election, the PLD was forced to unite with the PRSC in order to win the 50%+1 vote necessary, edging the PRD, which mustered 49% …

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In the sports world, the controversy over the hiring of Cuban coaches, who will be paid RD$14,000 versus an average of RD$1,500 paid to Dominican coaches, continues. Dominican coaches feel they have been discriminated against by this action. Bienvenido Solano, president of the boxing federation, said that the coaches hired were requested by the sports …

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Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez shares with Dominicans his hopes of recovery from his pancreatic cancer and his new vision of life, in an interview in the Listín Diario today.   The former presidential candidate of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano has spent the past year and a half fighting his illness, diagnosed three years ago. …

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The press reported Congress and government reached a consensus for the passing of the National Budget. The RD$38,749 million budget submitted by the Presidency would be passed on Monday by the Senate. Three days later, the Chamber of Deputies would approve it. The congressmen are adding a special allotment of RD$150 million to finish construction …

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The Dominican government is negotiating with the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) loans that would fund the rehabilitation of ports around the country. Technical Secretary of the Presidency Eduardo Selman met with a mission of the IDB at the National Palace to discuss the government plan to rehabilitate these ports under the concessionaire model, whereby private …

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The first successful bone marrow operation was completed a month and a half ago at the Instituto Oncológico Doctor Heriberto Pieter, the state cancer institute. Physicians Julio Castaños, María Jesús Benzo, Nancy Alam Lora and Carlos García participated in the operation. Danilo Lavalet, 26 years old, received a transplant of bone marrow thanks to the …

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Dominicans are proud of Dominican-American Rolando Tomás Acosta who became the first Dominican judge of a Civil Court in New York. Acosta was sworn in as judge yesterday and dedicated his appointment to his mother, who he said died at age 58, exploited by her work in textile factories where she toiled 18 hours a …

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Minister of Foreign Relations Eduardo Latorre denied that the First Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton would be travelling to the Dominican Republic in the near future. The Minister said he read about the possibility in the newspapers and was happy about it. I wish she would come soon, but we have no information …

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